James Boswell

She applies to her friend a remark about Samuel Johnson from Boswell 's Life: that her death left no-one living who resembled her.

Most of this novel's characters—Thrale, Johnson, the child Queeney, Laetitia-Matilda Hawkins (in response to whose proddings Queeney produces her retrospective part of the narrative), Giuseppe Baretti , James Boswell , Frances Burney —left their own...

For this her great support and encouragement was her brother (as he, rather than her husband , continued to be for her later publications). After he left home to pursue his studies, she sent him...

EC 's work, An Examination of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man, translated Crousaz' Examen; A Commentary on Mr. Pope's Principles of Morality, or Essay on Man, by Johnson, 1739, translated Crousaz' second...

Liddell was to remain one of ICB 's close friends. She maintained a benevolent, almost aunt-like relationship with him, and although resident abroad he was an important source of support after Jourdain's death. He later...

To all eyes she lived as Munby's servant; she often still slept in the basement kitchen. In the evenings, however, she played the role of a lady wife, sitting with Munby in the parlour, conversing...

In The Indian Writer's Problems (which appeared in Quest in 1970 and in the Literary Criterion in 1975, and was reprinted in Perspectives on Anita Desai), she remarks that English is the language that...

In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville

The year following her Selected Poems, CAD won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...

These letters were calculated to contribute to Steuart 's projected but never written book on Jacobite attempts on the throne between the Glorious Revolution and the Rebellion of 1745. They include some comment on women's...

PH went to various schools. She was removed from her first NewYork public school because her grandmother objected to her making friends with black children. Then came a small and select private school which she...

This book is sometimes called a memoir, but its autobiographical moments are only incidental. MJ 's attention is mostly directed towards books and reading; her own experiences of writing, publishing, and having her works performed...

Zoe reflects GJ 's own lifelong spiritual crisis.Susanne Howe notes that it anticipates later novels by Mary Augusta Ward and J. A. Froude , which also deal with spiritual doubt. Beginning in...

James Boswell recorded a crushing response made by SJ as part of his account of hearing Margaret Bell , c. 1708-77, a Quaker minister, preach at Lombard Street meeting.

SJ arrived in Edinburgh to join Boswell and set out together on their famous tour of the Highlands and islands of western Scotland.